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King_David

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Thu Jul 3, 2014, 06:48 PM Jul 2014

Turmoil and Global Anti-Semitism Double Aliyah

JERUSALEM – Chairman of the The Jewish Agency Natan Sharansky announced on Monday that global Aliyah (immigration to Israel from around the world) is up 55 percent, due largely to dramatic increases in immigration from France and Ukraine.

Speaking at the opening plenary of the Jewish Agency Board of Governors’ June meetings in Jerusalem, Sharansky announced that The Jewish Agency estimates French Aliyah will surpass 5,000 individuals by the end of 2014, an all-time record and a full one percent of the 500,000 person French Jewish community. Never before has such a large proportion of a Western Jewish community made Aliyah in a single year.


Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/17059/turmoil-global-anti-semitism-double-aliyah/#cXybxCceOU3kjdqU.99

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Turmoil and Global Anti-Semitism Double Aliyah (Original Post) King_David Jul 2014 OP
The reason The Jewish state exists. nt King_David Jul 2014 #1
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